William McCloskey American, 1859-1941
Still Life with Wrapped Lemons, c. 1895
Oil on canvas
10 x 17 inches
25.4 x 43.2 cm
25.4 x 43.2 cm
Signed at lower right: W.J. McCloskey
Provenance
Dora L. Foster, New York;
[Coe Kerr Gallery, New York]; to
Private collection; to
[Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, May 24, 2001, lot 135]; to
Private collection, Connecticut, until the present
Exhibitions
(possibly) The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, 1889, no. 15 (as Florida Lemons) // Carnegie-Mellon University, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American Cornucopia: 19th Century Still Lifes and Studies, 1976, no. 57, pp. 11, 33-34, illus. // Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and National Academy of Design, New York, Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life 1801-1939, 1981-1982, no. 88, pp. 206-207, fig. 8.27, illus. (as Still Life, Lemons)Literature
William H. Gerdts and Russell Burke, American Still-Life Painting, New York: Praeger, 1971, p. 166, illus. pl. XXI (as Lemons) // Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life 1801-1939, Tulsa, Oklahoma: Philbrook Art Center, 1981, pp. 206-207, fig. 8.27, illus. (as Still Life, Lemons)
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